EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!
Date and Time
Dec 11, 2025 7:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Dec 11, 2025 7:00 pm
450K
Join us for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!
At the heart of Split This Rock’s work has always been an insistence that poetry for liberation does not happen in isolation, but in community. While most of our work in recent years has facilitated virtual connection, we are excited to announce an in-person poetry gathering for our local community— Everyday Kind of Love: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock ft. Clint Smith! Join us for a joyful celebration with a live DJ, raffle prizes, tarot readings, special guest readers, and more as we fundraise to bridge a funding gap at Split This Rock. Help us reach our Everyday Kind of Love fundraising goal of $5,000!
During the celebration, attendees are invited to sign up for an open mic to share up to 2 minutes of written work and/or testimonies about what Spit This Rock has meant for them. Attendees may sign up for the list in advance by purchasing a discounted “$10 Reader Ticket.” Spots will also be available on a first-come first-serve basis the day of the event.
From our biennial poetry festival and Sunday Kind of Love, the DC Youth Slam Team and Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Slam and Festival, to Poem of the Week, virtual writing workshops, the Youth Activist Poetry Anthology, and more, Split This Rock has been grateful to contribute to a poetic infrastructure that keeps justice and liberation at the forefront. Not only is this an opportunity to provide funds for Split This Rock’s survival, but a moment to celebrate poetry of provocation and witness, the numerous ways it spreads an enduring love in us all.
About the feature:
Clint Smith is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. His writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. Smith received his BA in English from Davidson College and a PhD in Education from Harvard University. He is a staff writer at the Atlantic.
